Ppl talking like Taiwan's status is just a failure of will on the Establishment's part have never wandered into China's "alt-right" Internet
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The Chinese equivalent of Trump supporters are just as eager to start shit as our assholes
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And their government has been just as complicit in letting them get all riled up for political gain
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Thinking abt how e.g.Foxconn was a Taiwan corp the govt "invited" into Shenzhen, so none of the shit that went down was the govt's fault
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Foxconn was Taiwan corp operating in a Chinese police state to serve US clients, so blame for atrocities can pass seamlessly back and forth
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Chinese cops all "Look IF anyone got brutally beaten, which they didn't, the labor contracts we were enforcing came from Taiwan"
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Taiwan bosses "IF we had any knowledge of that, if we don't, we're just offering ppl jobs in a harshly repressive state"
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My point is that the really horrible labor shit you hear abt in China was structured so if push came to shove it could be Taiwan's fault
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You wouldn't think this kind of dodge pretending China has no agency would work but look at Trump's economic populism
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"Oh, stop, stop making me ship your jobs overseas! Those dastardly Chinese workers are forcing me at gunpoint to pay them three cents a day"
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(Is it also the fault of rich middleman fucks from Taiwan, well yeah duh)
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The Shenzhen "Special Economic Zone", the existence of HK and Taiwan, all v convenient so PRC to still technically be a "communist" country
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